Photohunt was, as promised, off the proverbial hook. It was cold and rainy for most of the day, but our team had a blast anyway. Winning was icing on the cake. The pics are up on neverforget for members to peruse; but they lose a lot in translation without the backstory to accompany them. If I have time this evening, I'll sit down and caption ( Read more... )

So yesterday was dinner at Shanghai, followed by bowling and poker. Shanghai was better than usual; I got the lemon-pepper chicken, and it was great. I only ordered it because it was advertised as a special - I don't know if it's on their regular menu (if it is, it certainly isn't in the poultry section). Bowling was also satisfactory, as I'm ( Read more... )

So I'm busy writing some ajax code at work, and I have a problem. My code works in IE and FireFox, but IE gives me alerts saying that it expects some extra semicolons. Firefox has no complaints - no errors or warnings show up in FireFox's JavaScript Console. Microsoft's JavaScript Debugger is pretty worthless. Any of you web-weenines out there ( Read more... )

The weekend was good - two BBQs in as many days, plus some satisfactory bowling. The weather is also quite nice, which has done a lot to snap me out of a winter funk. I'm about to go sit in my yard and read some philosophy in the sun. Wish you were here.

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Dinner on Thursday went rather well, I've filed away some improvements for the next beef stew I'll make (likely a hungarian goulash), and the chocolate-sour cream poundcake was very good (and, with a stand-up mixer, very easy to make). There was a 12-hour Nethack binge on Saturday, which I won easily; I likely would have ascended if I had another ( Read more... )

Picked up my new glasses last night; I really like the way they look, and being able to see things in perfect focus again is nice too. Initially went out with folks from floor to the Toad, but the place was packed. Fotios, Tom, and myself left for bowling or whatever. We ended up getting an early start on poker, and I kicked some ass, winning ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a good day. I had a good day at work, and left feeling accomplished. Later, I pulled myself out of my horrible bowling slump that has lasted for the past week and a half with a respectable 167 (a personal best for me). I then played a good game of poker, going from being short-stacked early in an eight-handed game to having a 2-1 ( Read more... )

Skipping bowling tonight to hammer out some design documents for work tomorrow. Been having a blast all week; tonight's the first day I've been home at a reasonable hour, and I used the time to cook myself dinner, which is something I haven't done enough of lately. My folks will be in town this weekend to drop off my furniture I left in Maine; ( Read more... )

Ong Bak is my new favorite action movie. You should go see it. Now. The food at FCB was pretty decent, and their beer was good as well. Today was spent sleeping in to make up for my week-day schedule, and then cooking and eating at Tom's place. We made beer-boiled bratwursts and mac salad, which were great, and Tom fashioned Guinness ice cream ( Read more... )